urban sprawl – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:11:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg urban sprawl – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Ottawa and Gatineau’s Growing Suburbs https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/02/ottawa-and-gatineaus-growing-suburbs/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:11:37 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3897 More]]>

Meanwhile, the Ottawa-Gatineau urban agglomeration (which is, as urban areas go, the closest to where I currently live) has, according to the census, grown by 5.5 percent since 2011, to a total population of 1.3 million. Much of that growth has occurred in suburbs that barely existed even when I moved to the region in 1999. This CBC Ottawa feature uses the Google Earth engine’s timelapse video function to chart the growth of seven of those suburbs. (Above: the Gatineau suburb of Aylmer.)

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